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Living Room / Re: Google Defeat? French Victory?
« Last post by Renegade on February 02, 2013, 09:36 AM »This is also an issue in Ireland... We'll see what happens there.
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Google has agreed to create a 60m euro ($82m; £52m) fund to help French media organisations improve their internet operations.
It follows two months of negotiations after local news sites had demanded payment for the privilege of letting the search giant display their links.
The French government had threatened to tax the revenue Google made from posting ads alongside the results.
The US firm had retorted it might stop indexing French papers' articles.
In addition to the creating the Digital Publishing Innovation Fund, Google has agreed to give French media access to its advertising platforms at a reduced cost.
The compromise allows it to avoid paying an ongoing licensing fee.
My first thought always, and recently confirmed by the CNET abuse of editorial discretion, is can the rankings be trusted?Of course not - follow the money trail.-Joe Hone (February 01, 2013, 09:20 PM)-f0dder (February 02, 2013, 05:43 AM)
In the chicken-egg spin apparently audiences want "edgy" characters as part of the escape from drudgery.-TaoPhoenix (February 01, 2013, 08:02 PM)
SaaS? Kill it with fire. Then roast the inventors over a slow fire. Then torch the term out of existence.-f0dder (January 31, 2013, 03:12 PM)
Couldn't we lightly eviscerate them first just for effect?-Stoic Joker (January 31, 2013, 06:00 PM)
Every time I tried I just felt like retching, stammered a bit, and called it something (like above) else.
I don't know if that qualifies as a syndrome or a complex but I kinda like it.-Stoic Joker (January 31, 2013, 06:00 PM)
You somehow knew that I have a very soft spot in my heart for Aesop! (Among my favourite books is "Aesop without Morals", which is an original translation. Great read! ) Playing on getting my sympathy there... consider it done! In a linked environment, it's not the device or the software. It's the connections and accessibility that becomes the key factor. Because with the network connection comes the real power. But it comes at a cost since networks depend on standards and regulation to make them workable for large numbers of people. So now we're seeing "personal" and "private" being offered up for sacrifice in exchange for access to a basically free global network with billions of resources hosted on it.-40hz (January 31, 2013, 09:05 AM)
It just goes on and on. And unfortunately, nobody really knows the answers because we're venturing into new territory here.-40hz (January 31, 2013, 08:13 AM)
^ that'd be this guy I guess ;-)-tomos (January 31, 2013, 07:28 AM)
http://justin.justne...f-the-word-fuck.html-PhilB66 (January 31, 2013, 05:55 AM)
Or it's perhaps a category of apps that ask for too many inputs too frequently to make the app inconvenient, and return only common sense answers you would already know.-eleman (January 30, 2013, 06:48 AM)
FAMILIES would be able to remotely monitor elderly relatives using high-tech sensors that check everything from when they leave their house to how often they turn on their taps and lights.
The sophisticated scheme, which will be trialled by the Federal Government over the year, would also measure heat in the kitchen or bathroom and could also capture medical conditions with connected biomedical devices.
Developed by the CSIRO, the broadband technology will use up to a dozen sensors the size of a wristwatch around a person's residence and is designed to make sure elderly people can stay in their homes longer and give peace of mind to their families.
The CSIRO will trial the sensors in the units of a group of about 20 elderly people living in Armidale, NSW, over the next year.
But if successful, the trial could become a key feature of the National Broadband Network.
US consumers are being offered a vast range of smartphone apps to track or manage health, but only a small number of people are using them, according to a survey.
The Pew Research Center's study found that only about seven percent of people surveyed used a smartphone app to track a health indicator like weight, diet, exercise routine or to monitor a chronic disease such as diabetes.
"There's still a low uptake in terms of apps and technology," said lead researcher Susannah Fox.
"It is surprising. We've been looking at health apps since 2010, and health app uptake has been essentially flat for three years."
The research suggests that consumers are slow to latch on to smartphone technology for health even in a market with hundreds of new apps coming on the market to manage weight and track blood pressure, pregnancy, blood sugar, diabetes or medication.
Since they enclose the ears, some people complain about comfort, but I never had a problem with them- they seem large enough that I don't know how anyone could complain, but I figured I'd give you that caveat.-wraith808 (January 29, 2013, 02:33 PM)
Is the universe trying to tell us something about him?
Hmmm...-Renegade (January 30, 2013, 12:32 AM)
I have to wonder what attracted him to this article in the first place-Target (January 30, 2013, 12:51 AM)
